[plug] Which brand of laptop?

[Lucas van Staden]

Hi,

I expect you will get a lot of 'personal choice' replies here.

My personal choice is IBM thinkpads (now called Lenovo) (although it
does not meet the keypad option - I personally find laptops with that
tend to be too big in size) . I use a T43.

Main reasons:

1. Linux is well supported, officially by lenovo.
2. You can buy your thinkpad with either windows or linux or no OS at
all installed. For a person like me who don't use windows at all, it
makes the purchase a bit cheaper, as you don't have to pay the included
OS costs. I bought mine with no OS installed.
3. Large community of linux users: http://www.thinkwiki.org and
http://forum.thinkpads.com/


As for the distro of linux to install, may I suggest you have a look at
linuxMint.
Based on ubuntu, but with some very nice extra's. I have found this to
be nice easy to use, and to install distro for people new to linux.
I converted my wife from xp to linux in one go, and now she prefers
mint. http://www.linuxmint.com/

I have just downloaded the latest cd (the main edition, using gnome) (it
works as a live cd, so you can give it a go without installing it), so
if you want a copy, send me a direct email, and I can burn the image for
you. I am in Port Kennedy.

Good luck in finding your 'personal choice'

Regards
Lucas

http://www.dedmeet.com


w0018749 wrote:
> I am buying a new laptop and I want to know: What brand of
> computers are the best?  This question probably has many
> answers so just a link to another discussion somewhere would
> be enough - or even a list of brands to avoid.
> 
> These are the things I need on this laptop:
> 1- big enough hard drive to have both linux and windows
> 2- keyboard with a number pad at the right (if possible)
> 3- DVD player and cd burner
> 4- wireless internet
> 5- I also need a stress-free installation process - I have
> had several attempts of installing linux and not many
> successes
> 
> I plan to install ubunta (spelling?) as I heard it can be
> configured for wireless.
> 
> I have been using linux for about a year on an old IBM
> "thinkpad" R52(?) laptop with 10Gb of memory.  It works good
> but its not big enough to run windows which I need from time
> to time for programs sent from Uni.  I have a DEL desktop
> but I am not so sure about that company.  If usb sticks are
> an indicator TOSHIBA looks good since you can fit two side
> by side in two adjacent ports and in the shell it does not
> have spaces in the key directory (TOSHIBA).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
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